Release date: 2016-08-05
Fighter pilots and brain surgeons have a lot in common. Destroy dangerous targets in a limited time and high-risk state, and ensure that losses are minimized.
Perhaps no one like the Israeli Air Force veteran, Surgical Theatre (in Ohio, providing state-of-the-art brain virtual reality) co-founders Alon Geri and Moty Avisar understand the relationship between the two.
Doctors wearing thick black goggles can “enter†the inside of the patient's skull, explore deformed areas, and develop general strategies for entering the skull, clearing the target, leaving the skull, and even the entire surgical plan. This will reduce a lot of accidents when making the first incision.
The Surgical Theatre calls it the SNAP technology (Advanced Platform for Surgical Navigation), which uses existing MRI scans to develop 3D models that are compatible with virtual reality. Engineers Geri and Aviver developed SNAP based on their extensive flight simulation experience.
In the early 21st century, they realized that the problems faced by brain surgeons were very similar to those of their pilot partners.
"If your first step is wrong, you can either finish it or remedy it in the rest of the surgery," Geri told Tech Insider.
Right: Alon Geri: Moty Avisar
Beginning in 2005, the two spent three years drafting solutions for colorless MRI scans. In 2013, their technology passed FDA certification. Now, with the rapid development of VR, doctors can view the patient's full-color 3D perspective.
"The difference is like watching a book with a 4K HDTV," said Robert Louis, director of the skull base and pituitary tumor project at Newport Beach in California, describing the difference between MRI and SNAP. "They are not a single position at all."
Hoag Hospital has been using SNAP since December 2015. During that seven-month period, Louis and his team used this technique for every patient they saw. “This is really significant in our work,†he said.
A lot of research explains the reason. When patients actively cooperate during the treatment, they will feel more comfortable, easier to control, and more satisfied with the results. With SNAP, doctors can bring their patients with VR glasses so they can look at their brains before proceeding with the next step.
Louis said that surgery will be more successful. The patient will recover faster because SNAP allows the doctor to avoid unnecessary incisions.
SNAP technology is currently used in nine locations, including Stanford University, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Geri said that there will be 10 places to adopt this technology by the end of this year. So far, the number of doctors using SNAP for surgery is about 900.
In time, Louis guessed that this technology would provide more information.
Although he has seen a leap from last December. At the beginning of the period, he could only see the anatomical framework. Now SNAP allows him to see the path of use in the 3D model. For example, tumor detection, he can easily avoid organizations like control language and action classes.
Without SNAP, this would be impossible. "You can't see this with the naked eye, even a microscope," Louis said.
Both he and Geri believe that virtual reality will be an important pillar of the operating room. For Louis, the most significant thing about this technology is that it helps patients understand their disorders and diseases. For Geri, the success of SNAP has far-reaching implications.
"When I first entered the operating room, I was very affectionate about this," he said. “I still remember the feeling of changing from a flying combat machine to a machine that saved lives.â€
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